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While we’re more or less on the subject of history, I’ll leave here one of my favorite parts of The Histories of Herodotus (excerpt taken from Ancient History Sourcebook):
III.80: And now when five days were gone, and the hubbub had settled down, the conspirators met together to consult about the situation of affairs. At this [...]

Old news but I just want to leave this here because I think it’s pretty cool. The function itself is like an artifact from another age. The article feels like a piece of ’software archeology’.
float InvSqrt (float x){
float xhalf = 0.5f*x;
int i = *(int*)&x;
i = 0×5f3759df [...]